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Has Work-Sharing Worked in Germany?
Hunt, Jennifer - 1996
Starting in 1985, (West) German unions began to reduce standard hours on an industry by industry basis, in an attempt to lower unemployment. Whether work-sharing works - whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced - is theoretically ambiguous. I test this using both individual...
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What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?
Burda, Michael C. - 2011
Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment loss. Employers' reticence to hire in the preceding expansion, associated in part with a lack of confidence it would last, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40...
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Supply-Side Policies in the Depression : Evidence from France
Cohen-Setton, Jérémie - 2016
evidence from France in the 1930s. In 1936, France departed from the gold standard and implemented mandatory wage increases and …
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Labor Reallocation and Remote Work During COVID-19 : Real-time Evidence from GitHub
McDermott, Grant R.; Hansen, Benjamin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
around the world. We show that the pandemic triggered a sharp pattern of labor reallocation at both the global and regional …
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Internal and External Labor Markets : An Analysis of Matched Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data
Abowd, John M. - 1997
France, we find that most of the firm-size wage effect and most of the inter-industry wage effect is due to person effects …
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The Entry and Exit of Workers and the Growth of Employment : An Analysis of French Establishments
Abowd, John M. - 1996
Our empirical analyses distinguish between flows of workers, directly measured, and job creation and destruction, again, directly measured. We use a representative sample of all French establishments for 1987 to 1990. Our most important findings are that (1) annual job creation can be...
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Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment : A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and France
Card, David - 1996
, Canada, and France. We argue that the same forces that led to falling real wages for less-skilled workers in the U ….S. affected similar workers in Canada and France. Consistent with the view that labor market institutions are more rigid in France … somewhat less in Canada, and did not fall at all in France. Contrary to expectations, however, we find little evidence that …
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Profitability, Employment and Structural Adjustment in France
Kouri, Pentti J.K. - 1982
In this paper, we present a dynamic model which explains output, enployment and energy consumption in the French manufacturing sector in terms of the expectedand actual path of wage rates and energy prices in units of output. The modelhas two distinguishing features: First, the rate of capacity...
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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching
Orefice, Gianluca - 2020
The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality...
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Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration
Marinescu, Ioana - 2020
zone in France using linked employer-employee data. Using instrumental variables with worker and firm fixed effects, we …
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